MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE

The course is inserted in the curriculum of Filologia, linguistica e letteratura italiana and in the curriculum of Filologia, letterature e storia dell’antichità, Laurea magistrale of Scienze dell’antichità: letterature, storia e archeologia. It aims to provide the students a deep knowledg of the domain of Italian Literature from the Middle Ages to contemporary ages. Being inserted in the Medieval and Byzantin curriculumm, it aims specifically to provide the students with basic elements both of intellectual history of the late Middle Ages and of philological technique in order to critically read and prepare editions of medieval Latin and Vernacular texts in relation to Latin texts.

The intellectual history of '200-'300 will be studied through one of the most interesting cases of translation of a vernacular text into Latin, namely Marco Polo's Devisement dou Monde. The text has been known and read mainly in Latin versions.

At the end of the course, the student will earn the following skills: - the ability to critically elaborate the secondary literature dealing with the intellectual of the late Middle Ages ; - the ability to work on case studies through the application of the methods developed in the secondary literature concerning the Franciscan question; - the ability to collaborate with scholars from different fields (in particular, historians of the Middle Ages and the Church), providing an open contribution to the multidisciplinary debate; - the ability to organize working groups on seminar topics.
In this way, the following skills will be developed, consistent with the course of study:
- awareness of the plurality of the methodological approaches to the text (with particular attention to the rhetorical-stylistic methodes):
- use of philological instrumentation;
- digital skills, especially starting from the tools provided by the Web for philological research.

Knowledge also elementary of the Latin language.

Knowledge also elementary of paleography and medieval codicology.

Knowledge of methods of critique of text and stomatology.

Elementary knowledge of the history of Italian culture (Latin and vernacular) between the two and fourteenth centuries.

Reference bibliography dealing with the preliminary skills:

P. Chiesa (a c. di), Elementi di critica testuale, Bologna, Pàtron (diverse edizioni).

L. Leonardi, Filologia romanza, vol. 1, Critica del testo, Milano, Le Monnier Università, 2022.

A. Petrucci, Breve storia della scrittura latina, Bagatto.

The main Latin translations of Marco Polo's text (known by the abbreviations Z, L, P, LT and LB) will be analysed and compared in detail. The contribution of these translations to the critical text of the Devisement will be studied, as well as their contribution to the dissemination of the text, the translation style and the purpose and audience of the translation.

References will be presented and discussed during the lessons.

F = Eusebi, Mario; Burgio, Eugenio (a cura di) (2018), Marco Polo, Le Devisement dou monde, t. 1: Testo, a cura di M. Eusebi, t. 2: Glossario, a cura di E. Burgio, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/books/978-88-6969-224-6/978-88-6969-224-6_69TdyXc.pdf .

Z = Barbieri, Alvaro (a cura di) (1998). Marco Polo: «Milione». Redazione latina del manoscritto Z. Parma: Fondazione Pietro Bembo/Guanda;

P = Francesco Pipino O.F.P., Liber domini Marchi Pauli de Veneciis de condicionibus et consuetudinibus orientalium regionum (ed. interpr. di Samuela Simion sul cod. Firenze, Bibl. Riccardiana 983), http://virgo.unive.it/ecf-workflow/books/Ramusio/testi_completi/P_marcato-main.html

L = Burgio, Eugenio (a cura di) Liber qui vulgari hominum dicitur Elmeliole o Liber domini Marchi Paulo de Venetiis, http://virgo.unive.it/ecf-workflow/books/Ramusio/testi_completi/L_marcato-main.html

LT = Santoliquido, Vito (2019), Il «Liber descriptionis» di Marco Polo nel ms. parigino BnF, lat. 3195: edizione critica e studio, Tesi di dottorato, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. http://dspace.unive.it/bitstream/handle/10579/15012/821476-1208058.pdf?sequence=2 .

Benedetto, Luigi Foscolo (a cura di) (1928). Marco Polo: Il Milione. Prima edizione integrale. Firenze: Olschki.

Students who will not attend the seminar must add the following literature:

M. Bertè, M. Petoletti, La filologia medievale e umanistica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
They are expected to be on touch with the Professor.

The knowledge will be verified through an oral examination. The students will be strongly invited to produce works on their own.

Conventional lessons, Seminar, practical exercises.

Italian

written and oral